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City Council Meeting Minutes July 7, 2020 ticketing violators and offenders Longer-term solutions for San Antonio Street includes speed limit reduction, as the speed limit on Belvin is 25 miles per hour. San Antonio Street requires equal consideration. Both previous and current traffic on San Antonio Street, demands a minimum of one more Stop Sign needed at Johnson Street to protect our community from reckless drivers. Additional speed bumps to slow down vehicles that are not observing the posted speed limits and/or stop signs. These are not only our family's problems but problems for all of the families that live on San Antonio Street and our entire community. We love our home, our neighbors, and our community and we just want to be safe when walking our dogs or when pulling out of our driveway. Please help us solve this problem, these problems deserve immediate attention. Katie Shaw: I'm writing to you regarding my concerns about the increased traffic on San Antonio Street. As a homeowner who has resided on San Antonio Street for more than two years (and in the neighborhood for 15+), the high volume of cars and trucks on our street is concerning from a public safety standpoint. Since the closure of Hopkins Street, our neighborhood street has been turned into a highway for motorists. This, at a time when many more residents and children are out walking, jogging and bicycling due to the COVID-19 lockdown. We've had no less than 3 wrecks on our street since the detour, and the speed -dampening sign has not been replaced since a wreck that happened near it. Why? Cars regularly drive around the barricade where Hunter Road meets San Antonio Street and speed through our neighborhood. I've also witnessed three police cars speeding down our street with lights and sirens on a few weeks ago, and the other day a fire truck going full speed with sirens. San Antonio Street needs lower speed limits and more stop signs to slow traffic. We need speed -dampening signs and occasional police presence to enforce the speed limit. San Antonio Street has more residents and more children and more foot traffic than Belvin Street does. It's unfair that the parallel thoroughfare, Belvin Street, gets preferential treatment. I've heard they have police giving out tickets for non-resident traffic. We don't have that on our street. Make the detour more equitable: split the traffic between Belvin and San Antonio Street. North bound on one, south bound on the other. Thank you for your consideration. Please help us make our streets safe. Let's not wait until residents get run over by speeding cars. PRESENTATIONS 1. Receive a presentation from Betty Voights, Executive Director of the Capital Area Council of Governments (CAPCOG), on the "50 Years of Service" to the ten -county City of San Marcos page 9